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TIL: Pooping can be a very dangerous activity for sloths. By some estimates up to half of sloth deaths are caused by taking poops on the forest floor.

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R5999 TIL that in world war 2, English soldiers would use passwords that had sounds that the language of the people they where fighting against did not have, so that they could tell if an unidentified person was an enemy soldier tying to infiltrate them by if they said these sounds correctly.
Me5OV TIL that we don't actually know how general anesthetics work, or how they are able to induce unconsciousness without shutting down other body or brain functions
x6amo TIL that a blow to the chest at a very specific moment of the heart’s rhythm, can result in immediate cardiac arrest. The blow doesn’t even need to be enough to cause physical injury. (Repost cos my last post got deleted)
XEDbD TIL according to the FDA, most store-bought honey is adulterated with cheaper ingredients that are not honey.
xnG5 TIL Chuck Palahniuk submitted his first novel, Invisible Monsters to publishers who rejected the novel saying they were disturbed by its content. Palahniuk then began work on another novel to disturb them further. That book was Fight Club.